NOAA: Mermaids Are Not Real
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 3rd, 2012
The Jewel of Norfolk, a mermaid sculpture located in Norfolk, Virginia. NOAA Photo.
Remember the Animal Planet’s world premiere of the science fiction movie Mermaids: The Body Found, on Sunday May 27 at 9PM E/P?
The film (which fooled some into thinking it was a documentary) made enough ripples that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had to come out with a clarifying statement:
…are mermaids real? No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples? That’s a question best left to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists.
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Yes they are real as my three year old son believes and as do I. Why not? There’s still so much to see and discover. No Giant Squid? Indeed. There is so much more and I do believe. Ask Ishi from the Yahi when he walked out of the woods and in the city. Listen to Jimi Hendrix when he sang “A Merman should I turn to be”. He sang of the best of what we can be and what can await us. For some, those days are over but not for me.